Saturday - April 27

Friday - April 26

Thursday - April 25

Run

15m

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Short, a few hills in the neighborhood.

TODAY AT BT:

Programmers meeting. Topics of discussion were social login implementation and photo/file uploading enhancements.

Today I just sent 2 dozen people to the dev site of the new BT. Yikes. 1 thick user survey book from a few years ago, 6 months of loose discussions and wireframing, 6+ months of graphic redesigner work, 7+ months of actual programming and it comes down to this moment. It is definitely 'defining'.

Unlike every other redesign, the focus on this was the 'new user' and overall user experience. It's cool that at least half of the beta testers are BT'ers from the VERY early days BUT it's with trepidation that I know that they, of all people, may not like the changes since the fundamentals and navigation are so different. Yet we can't go on as we have been doing things. Big changes had to be made. This is the first time that I went into this knowing that I will not make everyone happy, realistically I couldn't and still do what was necessary.

Yikes. What I can say is that I have done the best job I could have possibly done. No page was 'rushed' through in the redesign. A lot of thought went into them.